Next meeting:

TBA, in the Fall. Have a great summer everyone!

In the meantime....BAYM will be needing new organizers next year! Please contact us about volunteering to help keep the Boston Area Yeast Meeting going. Duties for organizers are simple:

1) Recruit speakers

2) Reserve rooms and equipment

3) Order food.

It's easy! We will help you get started, and have plenty of funds (so no need for fundraising).

Also, it's never too early to contact us about giving a talk for the 2008-2009 season. E-mail Marcelo or Dawn (e-mail addresses at bottom of this page below).

BAYM is a monthly meeting of yeast researchers in the Boston area.  Each meeting consists of a casual dinner (pizza, drinks, dessert) followed by two 30 minute research seminars. The speakers- principal investigators, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students- represent university labs from throughout the greater-Boston metropolitan region.  The seminars cover a variety of fields including transcription and regulatory networks, DNA replication and recombination, signal transduction, biofilm formation, hyphal invasive growth, silencing, fungal pathogenesis, ecology, and proteomics. Approximately 20 to 60 scientists attend each meeting.

BAYM had been hosted for about the past decade at the Whitehead Institute, and for the last year has been hosted jointly at the Broad Institute and the FAS Center for Systems Biology at Harvard University. As in past years, BAYM serves as a forum for sharing basic scientific research topics related to yeast (and for enjoying a free meal and beverage with your research peers).  One of the goals for this season is to expand the research topics so they include not only Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but other yeast species (and special guest non-yeast fungi) as well. Our aim is to bring together all fungal scientists in the greater Boston area, facilitating a broader, more multi-disciplinary, research community.

To sign up for our mailing list, please join the Boston Area Fungal Forum at our Nature Networks site and follow these steps:.

1) Go to our Nature Networks Group page:
http://network.nature.com/boston/group/baff

2) Log in (on the left), or register if you have not already.

3) On the top of the page, under "Boston Area Fungal Forum" are a short list of links. Click on the one that says "receive email updates".

4) To receive BAYM announcements, please make sure "New events" is checked. If you wish, you can leave more options checked. We announce meetings on "events" but also send a separate reminder on "Noticeboard messages".

You may also sign up to be notified about the other features our Nature Networks site has to offer, such as Notice Boards, Forums, Publications, and New Members. Our hope is that the Boston Fungal Forum will serve as a useful interactive extension of the Boston Area Yeast Meetings.

BAYM NEEDS SPEAKERS AND VOLUNTEERS!
If you have a ~30-minute story to share, please contact us! Please click on "Schedule" for available dates.
We look forward to hearing from you!

directions to the FAS Center for Systems Biology (@ Bauer labs)

Photos from BAYM

We are looking for speakers and sponsors. Please contact us if you are interested in supporting BAYM.

MarceloVinces: mvinces (at) cgr.harvard.edu
Dawn Thompson: dawnt (at) broad.mit.edu

Thanks for visiting. See you at the meeting!

	Dawn Thompson, PhD
	Broad Institute 7 Cambridge Center Cambridge MA 02142

	Marcelo Vinces, PhD
	Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology Bauer Laboratory, 7 Divinity Ave Cambridge MA 02138